Editing St Ives, Cambridgeshire (section)

===Population===
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of St Ives was recorded every ten years by the [[Census in the United Kingdom|UK census]]. During this time the population was in the range of 2,099 (the lowest was in 1801) and 3,572 (the highest was in 1851).<ref name=Camin>{{cite web |title=Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 |publisher=Cambridgeshire Insight |website=www.cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk |access-date=12 February 2016 |url=http://www.cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/file/2001/download |format=xlsx - download |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215102922/http://www.cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/file/2001/download |archive-date=15 February 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the [[Second World War]]).

{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!width="150"|Parish
!1911
!1921
!1931
!1951
!1961
!1971
!1981
!1991
!2001
!2011 
|-
|align=left|St Ives
|align="center"|3,015
|align="center"|2,797
|align="center"|2,664
|align="center"|3,078
|align="center"|4,082
|align="center"|7,148
|align="center"|12,331
|align="center"|14,930
|align="center"|16,001
|align="center"|16,384
|-
|colspan="11"|All population census figures from report ''Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011'' by ''Cambridgeshire Insight''.<ref name=Camin/>
|}

In 2011, the parish covered an area of {{convert|2688|acre|hectare|0}}<ref name=Camin/> and the population density of St Ives in 2011 was {{convert|3901|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|persons&nbsp;|persons&nbsp;|abbr=off}}.